The next observation I made was that I was tied to a table again so damn tightly. My head was full of medicine and I turned my head. Mariella and Damon were both unconscious, Damon was lying on the ground. They had some kind of devices attached to their heads with little lights on them. Like some kind of futuristic EEG device.

A voice from the front said " Energy beings, how easy, baby, they are to keep unconscious, all you need is an energy thingy like that, then those two are harmless, but you baby. " Damien of course. This guy won't stop.

He continued " As you can see, Mariella gets the shells, just like you're getting, no these aren't the same ones you got before, these are much more delicate, much more prone to disintegration, I'd say Mariella gets the medical problem pretty much when I decide to release them, same with you baby, but no one's looking out for you now with the lovely Mariella of the pack sick, again you're on your own. I've already dropped 8 bags of tender shells on you, so you're going to have these problems quite often.

Mariella only has 2 bags, but she doesn't need any more because they're nasty. Damon, not me on him. Let him take care of you, or you'll see how worried he is about Mariella. But you won't be telling anyone about this for a while. As you can feel, I'm gelling. And this is strong stuff. Finally, I'll give the other half of its ingredients in a drip. You'll be in a coma for 7 to 15 days. But no one will care. Then your medical problem will already be well underway when you wake up. Remember to be independent, baby. As always. Now I've taken Damon's doctor's side away from you too. By giving him better to take care of and Charles, well he worships Mariela too so..."

I felt how full of jelly I was. Damien dropped four more bags of shells on me and then the activator. I could feel my consciousness starting to shut down. And the last thing I noticed was him dragging Damon out of the car already.

Damon woke up next to the car, he couldn't remember what the hell had happened. Mariella was unconscious with Mimi next to her some distance away. He went to Mariella. " Darling, Mariella, come on, wake up, come on."

Mariella's eyes snapped open. She looked at Damon and said, " Cold, it hurts, it hurts, I feel sick." Damon gathered Mariella in his arms and tasted her blood. Infection and bad. Oh, fuck.

There was a note on the ground. "I put these little gifts for your wife, shells with bacteria inside, especially for energy creatures. You will once again be your wife's savior. Damien ps don't worry about Mimi, I'll have use for her in the future, she's just sleeping. "

Damon grabbed Mariella and Mimi and teleported into the house. Charles and Adam were carrying Mariella to the medbay when Damon looked through Mimi, she had been gelled and most of it had already been absorbed.

Well, Mimi would be asleep. He tasted Mimi's blood and there were no pharmaceuticals in it. It was a very strong anesthetic. Mimi would sleep for days. He carried Mimi to one of the bedrooms away from the medbay and left her there to sleep. He still closed the door to the wing.

Then he went to take care of Mariella. He went into the medbay and stripped naked. He went to Mariella's bed, took her in his arms, and sank his teeth into her neck. And let the substances drain out. Charles sat beside the bed the whole time, if Damon occasionally asked for something he would help.

Damon was stuck with Mariella for 18 days. Nobody paid any attention to Mimi because Damon told them that Mimi was in a deep coma, because of the jelly and she would sleep it off.

I woke up in bed. I had a terrible cold, aching all over. My eyes were very sore, my ears were hurting. Fucking shells I thought. I looked at my phone. I had been asleep for 10 days. I knew I was in a wing, far from medbay, and couldn't talk telepathically to anyone.

So once again I have to do this alone. I always crawled to the bathroom if I needed to, there wasn't a terrible need. I got some dental stuff done, which made me feel a bit better. After 4 days I was able to try to get out of this wing, towards the medbay, I didn't know anything about anyone else's condition.

I always managed to walk a few steps, then crouched. Eventually, I dragged myself roughly to the ground. I finally got the door open and got into the corridor. It had taken 3 days. The fever was soaring, now there was no more fever medicine as some ingredients had run out.

I crawled down the corridor with determination. I still had a ridiculously long way to go to medbay. The wing medbay wouldn't help when I needed medicine.

Mariella woke up. Her rescue radar was alarming and bad. Damon was asleep next to her, wrapped around her. Mariella quickly looked back through the past and saw what Mimi's situation actually was. Not good.

"Honey, Damon, try to wake up. " Mariella started to wake Damon.

Damon jerked up and opened his eyes "Thank God you're okay. Damien, he did this. " Mariella sighed.

She suspected something like that. "Damon, Mimi needs us. She's in really bad shape, no one came to check on her and Mimi's had a fever for 8 days and a bad infection too. Right now Mimi is trying to crawl, crawl down the hallway to here. But since everyone is hanging on to me if we could go and get Mimi here in Medbay and see what her situation is?" Damon stood up.

He was now directly familiar with the protector link and radar again. He helped Mariella sit up when she insisted. And to stand. Mariella was in good shape. The energy creature recovers quickly because she can directly use the energy to get stronger, with no need to eat.

They changed into their clothes and got the patient's bed ready. Damon set out the anesthetic drugs so he could make a cocktail if he needed to. They went off to find where Mimi was.

I was on the move again when I heard footsteps approaching. I tried to sit up and got myself into some sort of semi-sitting position. Damon came and crouched down next to me.

" What the hell baby, why didn't you let me know you were awake?"

I gulped and managed to reply " No telepathy, will you help me to medbay and I'll feel a bit better." Damon stood up and lifted me into his arms. Mariella was there too and felt my forehead.

I said " Be careful you'll get a burn, I'm so hot. Are you okay?" Mariella nodded and Damon carried me to the medbay and put me on the bed. I was so exhausted from all the crawling around that I almost collapsed into a puddle of jelly. But it was cold.

Damon was taking, or trying to take, blood from my arm. It didn't really come out of my vein. "Oh, it's a case like this. Fine, let's do it this way." He stuck a needle right into my heart and drew blood. He sniffed the tube and put the collectors in while Mariella sniffed. She put the collectors in too.

I had tried to keep my condition as stable as I could. I had found my panels. They are the control center of the supernaturals, you can consciously adjust body functions, pain threshold, drug resistance, and metabolism. Now I had time again. I had set my metabolism very low to save energy.

I tried to control my body temperature, but the infection was winning every now and then. So I kept myself stable for as long as I could, almost 8 days, now I should make adjustments slowly so that Damon or Mariella don't get suspicious.

I had read the book about the panels and I knew Mariella hadn't read it. And yet when Damon made me an alpha female the panels came out right. Also the alpha panel, the sex panel, and the power panel. My own willpower was so evolved that I could actually use it to make physical changes to some things.

I just had to remember my limits. I didn't know if others had the same ability, but my teleportation journey was equal to men's just with the willpower. My willpower became more powerful the more I used it. As I said telekinesis was also possible and with it, I was partially using it moving.

Damon examined Mimi carefully and downright scratched his head. Now that woman's whole body was a mess. Mariella noticed that something was bothering Damon and she couldn't understand why.

Mariella was also a little surprised because she was doing a very strong anesthetic that would put Mimi into a very deep sleep and Damon was doing the same. Together if they gave their stuff, Mimi would be in such a deep coma that it would be good if even Damon could find Mimi's thoughts without a proper deep probing, that's how deep Mimi would be put by their stuff, but why?

"Damon, why are we making a fucking strong tranquilizer? You'd think a lady could sleep on less. And what's bothering you?"

Damon sighed and said "Mimi has a fever of 47.8, yet her metabolic rate is 0.2 on the radar, blood pressure is nonexistent, pulse is slow, breathing is slow. Her body should be hyperactive because of that fever. Plus, Mimi is still 39 kilos. If she has had a fever for 8 days, she should have lost more weight. There is something really strange here now."

Mimosa came to the medbay and went to sniff Mimi. Then Mimosa came to Mariella and Damon.

"Your little Mimi is now an alpha female, has been for some time in fact. Mimi has an independent nature and one thing that has always bothered Mimi a little is that you had the power to make all the medical decisions. Mimi wants to reduce that. Mimi has found one particular book and read it very carefully and is currently doing as the book instructed. She uses her panels. The panels are the control center, with shapeshifters, they regulate all body functions, heat, metabolism, pain threshold, and drug resistance. Everything. There are also several panels involved in sex. The lady has put herself on the economic flame and is trying to last as well as she can. Probably she has a high pain threshold and good drug resistance. No sex drive. Usually, alpha males take the most pack of female panels. There's mine. Please feel free to adjust them however you like. But the alpha female never wants to give panels. I believe your teeth will produce some sort of solution, Mimi enough down by anesthetizing, you go and take those panels and see to it any way that all the control center panels come in. Mariella will probably want to read that book first or are you going to go and get it first?"

Damon's expression was stern as he glanced at Mimi. Damon didn't want Mimi to read just any book because well Mimi was strong. And not all knowledge was good for Mimi just because of that willpower.

They'd talked about Mimi a lot in all the time they'd been together, and now that Mimi was really an alpha female in this pack too, it would be up to Damon to keep that female in check at least part of the time. Mimi had a network of fleas who were loyal to her until the day she died, and through them, Mimi got information, jewelry, and everything, including books to crystals.

And Damon wanted that network at some point to be put in check so that Mimi was no longer in charge, but he didn't know how to do it. How to stop people from being loyal to Mimi, the flea? And when he wanted to spend time with Mariela, but on the other hand, Mimi always offered a challenge, always something to do.

"'Darling, what do you recommend? " Damon asked in a silky soft voice, at the moment he didn't mind if Mimi was sick. He could and would love to show her how powerful he really was.

"To Mimi Of course you'll tell her you know, at the same time we'll put her in restraints and these little bags will drip and you'll tell her what's in them. We'll also draw up an even broader mandate for you on Mimi's affairs, money, health, and nutrition. We're going to use it right up to the judge for verification. Mimi will be under your guardianship after that and if she ever tries to seek help elsewhere, at any point this will always come up first. You will be contacted.

We will also tell Mimi this before she falls asleep. And please teach Mimi that it's okay to stroke her hair. That dodging, it's a reflex and it always brings a shed session to Mimi's mind, even for a moment. That was Damien's point, to remind her of the whole session. From what you've told me and what I've watched, one of the goals of every session was to leave as bad a traumatic memory as possible. I know we can erase memories and we do but I feel like it's a decades-long fight."

Damon kissed Mariella and said "You're a little nervous about that book. Don't worry I'll take all the information away from Mimi for our heads. But for now I'm going to go to my "wife" to discuss our future together, because after this stunt, I don't know if Mimi's quite so good at flitting off to wherever by herself."

I got my metabolism up a bit. I kept the pain threshold high so it was bearable. Nutrient uptake could be improved and that's why I raised my metabolism. Sex stuff, you don't need that. Drug sensitivity especially to tranquilizers yep. I don't want to sleep.

Damon walked over to my bed and squatted down, he leaned his hands on the bed and put his head on his hands. "You know Mimi, how many things change? First of all, Mariella will make a new power of attorney, a mandate, anything, that I have the power to decide about your health matters but also about money matters, food. You will be my charge, I will be your guardian.

Quite a lot of things will have to be approved by me then, buying houses and cars. Even maybe air travel. But you seem to be teleporting quite a bit. That willpower of yours, I was just wondering, it probably belongs to the pack. Then you go to sleep, deep deep sleep, Mariella and I made you a really strong anesthetic.

When you're in a coma we'll come into your head and I'll take over, baby, every single panel, take over your control center, put you under control. Oh boy, when you wake up you'll know you're alive. And you'll lose all the knowledge you read in that book, you can't store it anywhere."

Then Damon stood up and took one of my hands and put it on the spiked shackles where the springs were and did the same with the other side.

He looked at me and said " Those are just formalities, you're in no condition to fight me, now I'm going to put a central line and those bags on the drip and sit next to you baby until you fall asleep. You'll soon learn to be under me in more ways than one, baby, just remember there's gonna be consequences for doing that. "

Damon stroked my sides. I don't want to breed. I'd already turned off the panel on reproduction. Damon stood up and cannulated me, then he hung two bags and put them both on the drip. He walked over to sit next to me and brushed the hair from my forehead, I dodged.

Now he didn't back down either. "Now Mimi we'll study here while you start to fall asleep, there's nothing wrong with my touch, nothing at all, I'll teach you a better touch, I'll replace what Damien always did and then you'll learn better. First of all, close your eyes and smell, passionfruit, now focus on my touch, feel it. Now think real hard about what I'm doing, how it feels, now open your eyes, am I looking at you, like a piece of meat? No, I'm looking at you like an unruly alpha bitch who's going to get good treatment after a little recovery. And Mimi, now you're living here with us, no more flamboyance, no more road trips, no, now it's pack life a la Salvatore."

The medicine took effect and I felt how difficult it was to stay awake. Things were really going to change. Oh fuck, under Salvatore's tutelage. Pack life. The Lord really clipped my wings off. Well, luckily the houses are pretty big, but I'm not going to get fucked under that...was the last thought before I fell into a deep black well.